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Facebook Takes Flight – Inside the Test Flight of Facebook’s First Internet Drone

At 2AM, in the dark morning hours of June 28th, Mark Zuckerberg woke up and got on a plane. He was traveling to an aviation testing facility in Yuma, AZ, where a small Facebook team had been working on a secret project. Their mission: to design, build, and launch a high-altitude solar-powered plane, in the

Alphabet X Solar-Powered Balloons Bringing Internet Service to Puerto Rico

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted Google”s parent Alphabet X an experimental license to help get Puerto Rico back online after Hurricane Maria decimated the island”s infrastructure. There are now several of their giant stratospheric “Project Loon” balloons over the island, and they have worked with AT&T and T-Mobile to get communication and internet activities